Tragedy Quotes
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
Joseph Stalin
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.
William Mather Lewis
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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
Wes Moore
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How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy Whitfield, which made everything very difficult and pushed back.
Chris Albrecht
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I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially.
Chris Cornell
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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.
Conn Iggulden
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In terms of human lives lost, it is the tragedy of the decade for Mexico. It's a very serious situation for the country.
Ernesto Zedillo
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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
Virginia Woolf
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The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
Raymond E. Feist
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Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.
Michael C. Hall
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Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.
Emilie Loring
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My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.
Errol Flynn
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr
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Our focus is on our two guys. We're praying about their health, to overcome this tragedy.
Bob Hartley
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I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.
William R. Ferris
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The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.
Walter Wink
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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
Charlie Jane Anders
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A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.
Bruce Barcott
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That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.
Charles Coburn
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Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.
Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
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From drama to tragedy is a short step.
Abdellah Taia
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I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.
Roberto Benigni
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends too soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Ed Foreman
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The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
Ada Louise Huxtable